As a city grows, so do its problems. In the years 2022 and 2024 Bengaluru witnessed some of the worst floods in its history, whereas 2023 was a year of drought. The latest TomTom traffic index has rated the city’s traffic as the third slowest in the world. Plumes of dust from construction debris, potholes
The stake sale is a change of plan for Orkla, which was considering an IPO for the Indian business as recently as September 2024. The Norwegian company entered India by acquiring ready-to-eat food maker MTR in 2007 and spicemaker Eastern in 2020. “ITC is ready to evaluate the acquisition because the company is keen on
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The development also signals a more cautious approach to regulating the sector as India weighs the potential impact on foreign investments and domestic e-commerce players in the evolving global trade landscape. “It is not the right time to go ahead with the release of the e-commerce policy, given the changing global geopolitical scenario,” one of
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New Delhi: The National Health Authority has asked the health ministry to integrate the Universal Immunization Win (U-WIN) platform with Unified Health Interface (UHI). This is similar to the approach adopted for CoWIN when vaccination slots were booked during the covid epidemic and will help people discover vaccination services. As part of the plan, efforts
Advocating a “strong need” for unity between the Congress and the Aam Admi Party (AAP), Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen said that the two parties should have fought the Delhi elections together with mutually agreed commitments. Speaking to PTI during an exclusive interview at his ancestral home in Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, Mr.
Dear reader, In his incisive 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell performs a brilliant autopsy on the art and craft of writing and communication. He focusses on how and what language manifests—or rather, fails to manifest—in political discourse. The master satirist, never one to mince words (though he’d be the first to
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“Can I get a ‘chi hoooo?’,” asks little Dheva Mayuran who is cosplaying as Maui from the film Moana, holding up a painted fish hook. Not too far away, he spots Moana, a cosplayer who looks mind-bogglingly similar to the curly-haired star of the much-loved Disney movie. In the vicinity, at Chennai Trade Centre in Nandambakkam, there
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Written by a former Chief Secretary of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Keshav Chandra, When Turquoise Waters Turned Dark is neither a conventional academic book nor a popular history. This 229-page coffee-table book blends concise narratives from the islands’ colonial past with over 80 photographs clicked by Chandra, creating an immersive visual-textual experience. When Turquoise
Kaveri 2.0, a web portal that was launched in 2023 to streamline property registrations in Karnataka, came under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack carried out through Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered bots recently. A denial-of-service (DoS) attack occurs when legitimate users are unable to access information systems, devices, or other network resources due to the
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Aggressive marketing: An ad for Dodge Brothers Victory Six car. | Photo Credit: special arrangement Last week witnessed a vintage car rally organised by the Historical Cars Association of India (HCAI). Among those who showcased their cars was Ranjit Pratap, president of the HCAI. His interest in automobiles is inherited from his grandfather M. Rajagopal
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